It's a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.

I like to relish words and sentences, and phraseology, and there's not much facility for that [playing Maigret].

It's a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.

The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.

Without wanting to claim that I'm really like James Bond I would certainly prefer to be thought of as closer to James Bond than Mr. Bean most definitely.

Having spent a substantial part of my career parodying religious figures from my own Christian background, I am aghast at the notion that it could, in effect, be made illegal to imply ridicule of a religion or to lampoon religious figures.

You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.